On April 9, AEI’s Robert Pondiscio hosted a panel on the decoding threshold, a key but little-known indicator for elementary and middle school students’ reading ability. The panel featured a ...

Despite expectations that students master basic reading skills by third grade, many continue to struggle with reading into upper elementary school and beyond. A new study commissioned by the Advanced ...

The invention of close reading. By transforming quotations into evidence, close reading served as way to turn postwar criticism into a specialized knowledge. But what if we treated it more as an art ...

This is the first of two stories about how to support principals in the work of shifting how schools teach reading. Read about principals’ own learning trajectories in part 2. Nathaniel Messick ...

Elaine Reese has received funding from the Marsden Fund of the Royal Society of New Zealand. One key change is a renewed focus on phonics (mapping sounds to letters). But an overemphasis on phonics ...